The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.
The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'
Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.
I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.
Any company of my size cannot live without thinking it's possible to go public one day.
Herve has that sex appeal. Certain bodies need Herve Leger badly because you have to reformulate the silhouette.
Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.
To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.
The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others’ ideas to be realized.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love.
